changeset 518:1f9b96080525 HEAD

Updated SSL certificate comments.
author Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
date Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:00:37 +0300
parents ca99b1d7ceef
children 9e121e74c188
files dovecot-example.conf
diffstat 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/dovecot-example.conf	Fri Oct 25 07:20:36 2002 +0300
+++ b/dovecot-example.conf	Sat Oct 26 00:00:37 2002 +0300
@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@
 # to imap_listen if not specified.
 #imaps_listen = 
 
-# SSL certificate/key, they're opened as root. Note that these default paths
-# are absolute, configure options don't affect them.
+# PEM encoded X.509 SSL certificate and private key. They're opened before
+# dropping root privileges, so keep the key file unreadable by anyone but
+# root. Note that these default paths here are absolute, configure options
+# don't affect them. Use for example OpenSSL to generate these files.
+# generator, 
 #ssl_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/imapd.pem
 #ssl_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/imapd.pem